The Pokémon Trading Card Game 2008 Holiday Collector’s tins come in four specially designed Diamond & Pearl tins. Each tin contains four previously released Pokémon TCG booster packs, one of four new foil promo LV.X cards featuring Mewtwo, Rhyperior, Regigigas, or Heatran, and a great window design for displaying your favorite cards.

Retailing for $14.99 each, all four editions of the tins will be in stores in November!  A must-have for collectors, these Pokémon tins feature highly stylized graphics of some of the most powerful Pokémon in existence.

Pokémon USA sponsored 3 (three) Pokémon tins to give-away! I’ll make it easy for you to join –

• One entry per person per day. Say “aye!” if you want one.
• It’s open to residents of the US only.
• Contest ends 11:59 midnight EST on October 31, 2008 (Friday).
• Three winners will be randomly chosen and announced via blog and email the week after.
• If a winner does not reply within 3 days, he/she forfeits her winnings and an alternate entry will be chosen.
• REMINDER #1 : In previous contests, I have had several winners forfeited for failure to reply to my emails.  Please make sure your settings don’t put my email into the junk folder, otherwise you’ll have no idea you won. Better yet, please check this blog for the winners’ list after the contest ends. Best bet, come back often and stay a reader!

More giveaways at the Superhero Profiles’ Treasure Chest!

More giveaways at the Bloggy Giveaways Quarterly Carnival!

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OK, so she’s faster than Hiro, but is she faster than time itself?

Since “Heroes” introduced the Speedster aka Daphne Millbrook (Brea Grant), Hiro has referred to her as his Joker, his own personal villain. She is so fast that she steals something from the Nakamura safe while Hiro has time stopped. Yes, she’s moving faster than time itself. Does this mean Daphne can run so fast to actually travel through time, like Hiro can? Now that would be the bomb wouldn’t it?

The current Heroes comics #97 “Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration” features Daphne’s speeding ticket and what she did to earn it. We also get introduced to another petty thief/middleman the Moroccan Samir Mellouk, a phaser like D.L.

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NBC Photo/ Chris Haston

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This wasn’t anything like the ’80s “Transformers Animated“, for sure. And that’s the unfortunate truth.

“Transformers Cybertron (Robots in Disguise)” is the last of a three-part series (”Transformers: Armada” and “Transformers: Energon”) but since it makes no reference to the previous series new fans won’t be out of the loop.

The story. The continuous story arc opens with a massive black hole that threatens to destroy Cybertron, the home planet of the Transformers. The only means to close the black hole are the Omega Lock and its four Cyber Planet Keys, ancient artifacts that were scattered in different worlds across the universe. An ancient Transformer called Vector Prime tasks Optimus Prime and the Autobots to locating the Keys and save the universe. This is where the Decepticons come in. Megatron plans to use the Keys to re-create the universe in his image.

The Autobots evacuate to Earth and meet three children Coby, Bud and Lori who the robots recruit to help them. Yes, children. Don’t ask me why but several times Optimus Prime puts the children in danger like it’s a normal thing for a robot to do.

The race to locate the Keys take the Autobots and Decepticons to Velocitron, Beast Planet and Gigantion, where more Transformers reside. Actually by the second disc, I have met so many Transformers and upgraded versions of Transformers that I totally got lost. The Cyber Planet Keys give a Transformer instant system upgrade of power, weapons and a new name. So Megatron became Galvatron, Overhaul became Leobreaker, etc., etc. Why can’t they stick to Mega-Megatron, or upersize-Megatron or something? By the second disc, there are so many Transformers and names that I totally lost track.

The DVD. “Transformers: Cybertron (Robots in Disguise)” Ultimate Collection is a 7-disc 52-episode set that runs for more than 19 hours. Retailed at US$61.99, I suggest not watching this as a marathon, like I did. The theme song “Transformers more than meets the eye” gets annoying after a while. I have to credit the animation – the machines are all computer-generated and transformations are totally sophisticated. The images are quite sharp and detailed. On the other hand, the humans and background are traditionally animated so there is still that cartoonish look to the show. There are no extras or special features whatsoever. The audio is Dolby Digital English Stereo.

The Review. I was excited about reviewing this collection, since I grew up watching and loving the original series back in the ’80s. However, I found the episodes of the current series “Transformers: Cybertron” to be painfully dragging. There was too much talk and “lecturing”. I would have just preferred total action adventure, instead the characters  (who knew robots have something to say?) have moralistic conversations about death, friendship, trust. Maybe the producers fully intentioned this DVD to teach lessons, and I could totally use this to teach my child something – “remember what Optimus Prime said?” – but those scenes just stretched the episodes even longer.

But of course I still watched it till the end. After all, it’s still Transformers and I wanted to find out just what it takes to destroy Megatron Galvatron.

image: Paramount Home Entertainment

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• Instead of Smallville, the Choice TV show for Action Adventure went to Heroes.
• Instead of Kristin Kreuk, the Choice TV Actress for Action/Adventure was Hayden Panettiere of “Heroes”.
• Instead of Michael Rosenbaum, Choice TV Villain went to Ed Westwick of “Gossip Girls”.

Now what’s weird was there was no winner announced for Choice TV Actor for Action/Adventure in which Tom Welling was nominated.

This doesn’t bode very well for Smallville, which is on its last season this year.

POLL:

Just Jared has the list of winners.

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At the Comic Con, Sci Fi Wire touched based with Justin Hartley about his excitement to play the green archer in Smallville, and included some SPOILERS in the interview.

• In season 8, we get to explore the mythology and origin behind Green Arrow
• Oliver is going to question his motives for being a hero
• Clark starts to embrace his destiny a little bit more

Read the complete interview here, and hat tip to spoiler-TV.

image used with permission from Newscom

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The Lana Lang of television admitted that Smallville is the longest relationship she has had in the past 7 years. “And it has now pretty much ended.” As a way to seal the freedom, Kristin Kreuk cut off ALL her hair!

I (Kristin) just went in there on my own and Sarah (she is the key hairstylist on Smallville, and is freakin rad) tied it in a ponytail and sawed the sucker off…

The cut looks great on Kristin, but I’m surprised to find her very thin and haggard-looking in this photo. She looked different at the Comic Con last week. Maybe it’s the stress of filming a new movie.

She landed the title role for the movie adaptation of the video game “Street Fighter 4: The Legend of Chun-Li“. The film is still in productions and very few pictures have appeared… up until now…

The StreetFightermovie.net blog is up and running with pictures of the cast, some behind-the-scenes and insider look at the movie. Movieweb also has set photos of Kristin Kreuk and the other cast. And then of course, there are the YouTube images –

Just to clarify, Kristin will still appear in Smallville, in a few episodes as a guest star. She just won’t become a series regular anymore.

image used with permission from Newscom

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A preview of season 8 was shown, and a fan captured it on vid. It’s not too clear but we can figure afew familiar spoilers from it –

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What? Nothing about season 8?!

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Bale’s own mother Jenny and sister Sharon claimed the actor assaulted them on Sunday July 19. The London police interrogated Bale for 4 hours but released him on bail, with no charges filed. They even allowed Christian Bale to attend the European premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Monday.

Christian Bale denied the allegations. His mother and sister at first denied the incident but ‘fessed up after, only to say “there was a family situation… the police are handling the matter… we didn’t call the police to the scene…”

The press is definitely having a field day of it. UK’s GMTV thought Christian Bale looked on edge in this interview, the NY Post described it as “What a joker!”. He does look tense at the London red carpet, which was a huge difference when Bale appeared for The Dark Knight premiere in New York. Christian Bale plays Batman/Bruce Wayne in the darker interpretation by Christopher Nolan of the Batman story.

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Smallville season 8 will begin on September 18, for the top Thursday primetime spot 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. It will be followed by Supernatural at 9:00 p.m. which also premieres the same night.

Here is the full list of The CW’s Fall 2008 primetime premiere dates:

Monday, September 1

8:00-9:00 p.m.                                    “GOSSIP GIRL” *

9:00-10:00 p.m.                                  “ONE TREE HILL” *

Tuesday, September 2

8:00-10:00 p.m.                                  “90210”* (Two-Hour Premiere)

Wednesday, September 3

8:00-10:00 p.m.                                  “AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL”
                                                               (Two-Hour Premiere)

Tuesday, September 9

9:00-10:00 p.m.                                  “PRIVILEGED” *

Thursday, September 18

8:00-9:00 p.m.                                    “SMALLVILLE” *

9:00-10:00 p.m.                                  “SUPERNATURAL” *

Friday, October 3

8:00-8:30 p.m.                                    “EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS” *

8:30-9:00 p.m.                                    “THE GAME” *

9:00-10:00 p.m.                                  “AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL”
                                                              (Encore Presentation)

Wednesday, October 29

9:00-10:00 p.m.                                  “STYLISTA”

* Broadcast in High Definition
All Times ET

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